This is the only web log to specialize in the declining use of the French language, both globally and within France itself. We use recent and less recent web articles, blog entries and books written in French, English, German and other languages to document the failure of costly Francophonie policies in- and outside France.

9/08/2008

Melanesian Politics by Howard Van Trease gives in pages 55 through 58 an interesting account of the precipitous decline of the French language in the Polynesian island of Vanuatu before and after independence. As is so often the case with the French, their duplicitous policies backfired on them: